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Topic: Ohio GOP scandals may help Democrats  (Read 385 times)
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« on: July 18, 2004, 05:30:08 PM »
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Republicans fear fallout could be costly at polls
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Joe Hallett

Chastened by scandals that could threaten their state government dominance, Ohio Republicans this week hope to unveil reforms intended to shine light on secret fund-raising accounts.

Ohio GOP Chairman Robert T. Bennett said he and the party’s elected Statehouse leaders must demonstrate that they can clean up their own political messes, or Ohioans will throw them out.

http://www.dispatch.com/features-story.php...0718-A1-03.html
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« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2004, 05:44:13 PM »
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I don't hope for Democrat successes, but the Ohio RINO party could use a little shaking up!  The fact is, Ohio and other Midwestern Republican establishments tend to be the Big-Business pro-tariffs party of yore, while the rest of the GOP has morphed into a Reaganesque/socially conservative party of the traditional folk (what Democrats USED to be before the Left-Wing takeover at the turn of the century).  That's why, when the GOP brags about being the party of Lincoln, I wince.  The modern GOP is more akin to the party of Andy "By God" Jackson!  

I hope they get their medicine (if this scandal is really rooted in fact), but of course I hope the cure doesn't turn out to be worse than the disease!
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2004, 10:21:58 AM »
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Of course it helps the Democrats- We look like idiots!

If I was on the Kerry campaign, I would do a state-wide mailer that showed Bob Taft, Larry Householder, and George Bush. I'd call it the "Dynamic Trio of Republicans" and just plaster it all over the state. Thankfully, the Kerry campaign doesn't seem to be that smart.
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